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Bitcoin entrepreneur and banking family scion Matthew Mellon will serve as executive committee chairman for the Chamber of Digital Commerce.

McDonald’s Hackathon held in London from 21 to 23 November invited to participants to think and design applications around a brand new digital restaurant experience. Fittingly, the hackathon participants had the pleasure to meet with Blockchain.info team and experiment around the digital currency. We already knew that bitcoins startups were fond of bitcoins events that unfold […]

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According to BizJournal coverage of the Butterfly Labs (BFL) FTC case, federal Judge Mark Wimes may be considering allowing the tainted Bitcoin mining company to reopen its doors in an attempt to make money to pay back customers from around the world. Butterfly Labs has been notorious in the Bitcoin mining space for failing to […]

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Derivatives broker Nadex plans to launch bitcoin binary options next month, pending approval from the CFTC.

Hong Kong startup Bitspark is offering a new remittance service that slashes costs by one-third with bitcoin.

The Future of Money & Technology Summit on December 2, 2014 at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco will bring together the best and brightest thinkers around money, including: visionaries, entrepreneurial business people, developers, press, investors, authors, solution providers, service providers, and organizations who work with them at the convergence of cash and commerce. They meet to discuss the evolving money ecosystem in a proactive, conducive to deal-making environment. Live videos will be embedded below the schedule prior to each event and simultaneously available on the Bitcoin Magazine YouTube Channel.  The on-demand replay of each broadcast will be available subsequently. Those who decide to attend the Summit in person can save money by registering for the Summit and paying with […]

Vitalik Buterin won the 2014 World Technology Award for the category “IT Software,” beating Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. The Award recognizes Buterin’s leading role in the design and development of Bitcoin 2.0 platform Ethereum. Earlier this year Buterin, featured in The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin documentary, won the prestigious Thiel Fellowship for developing Ethereum, […]

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An official from the Dutch Ministry of Finance has indicated that bitcoin transactions may not liable for VAT.

OKCoin and itBit have joined CoinDesk's USD price index. The criteria for speed of withdrawals has also been adjusted.

Remittance leader Western Union is currently experiencing a strong backlash from the Bitcoin community, following a subvertising made by a reddit user that highlights the huge benefits of the virtual currency over the company services. It’s a quite funny home page that is displayed on the /bitcoin subreddit at this time: dozens of heavily upvoted […]

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Bitcoin companies are attractive targets for hackers, so how do they protect your hard-earned coins?

Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Ripple and Litecoin offer some security advantages. But there are risks too. Stanford Business School professor Susan Athey explains.

Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Ripple and Litecoin offer some security advantages. But there are risks too. Stanford Business School professor Susan Athey explains.

Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Ripple and Litecoin offer some security advantages. But there are risks too. Stanford Business School professor Susan Athey explains.

Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Ripple and Litecoin offer some security advantages. But there are risks too. Stanford Business School professor Susan Athey explains.

No one currently knows more abut how Bitcoin works than Andreas Antonopoulos. He is a leading public speaker on Bitcoin globally, even educating the Canadian Parliament for his expertise on the digital protocol. He has literally written the book on Bitcoin mastery, and he owns or governs several Bitcoin companies. If you want Bitcoin brainpower, […]

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Bitcoin entrepreneur turned evangelist Roger Ver says he will match $20,000 in bitcoin donations to an anti-war website.

Instacoin continues it steady growth in Quebec by adding two more Bitcoin ATMs in Montreal. Instacoin is a group of independently owned ATMs throughout the Quebec province. The goals are to bring Bitcoin awareness, promotion and ATMs to Canadian in Quebec. Their first Lamassu Bitcoin ATM launched in June of this year. Instacoins goal of […]

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Guy Corem of Spondoolies-Tech is a very thoughtful leader who built his team carefully when entering the ASIC Bitcoin Miner industry. That careful approach extends to every step in the process as well as adapting as needed to bring the best Bitcoin miners they can to market. Their first miner to market was the SP10 […]

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Ebola, a deadly disease, has wreaked havoc in countries in Western Africa for almost a year. Thousands have died and continue to die. Bitcoin Against Ebola, a non-profit initiative created by Beam, allows people to send Bitcoins (that are converted to the Ghanaian Cedi) to Ghana to support the efforts to contain Ebola. Bitcoin Against […]

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CaliforniaCoin was a run-of-the-mill altcoin that hoped to capitalize on the media attention surrounding bitcoin investor Tim Draper’s “Six Californias” plan. However, Draper failed to acquire enough signatures to get the proposal on the California ballot. CaliforniaCoin suffered a similar fate, and the developer eventually abandoned the project. A core group of investors tried to […]

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CaliforniaCoin was a run-of-the-mill altcoin that hoped to capitalize on the media attention surrounding bitcoin investor Tim Draper’s “Six Californias” plan. However, Draper failed to acquire enough signatures to get the proposal on the California ballot. CaliforniaCoin suffered a similar fate, and the developer eventually abandoned the project. A core group of investors tried to […]

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London, November 18, 2014. UK Bitcoin service provider SpectroCoin.com this month launched a new feature on its platform to allow clients to withdraw cash in more than 25 countries around the Europe and Central Asia raging from France or Switzerland to Turkey by overcoming banks to provide an easier access to Bitcoin for unbanked people. In Europe and Central Asia where 193 million adults[1] are not using formal financial services, their financial exclusion might lead to a social exclusion. Provision of link for these people to a global payment network acts as a social mission to reduce their financial exclusion in highly effective and low cost way. According to SpectroCoin.com co-founder and CEO Vytautas Karalevicius, previously a finance student at […]

Agora Commodities has announced it will rebrand under the name Crypto Bullion Group, a decision that finds it bolstering its commitment to bitcoin.